Gold Coast, West Africa
By Mrs. M. E. Hyatt
CAPE COAST CASTLE.—Our native boy is learning to read the Bible, and he asks many questions about Jesus, heaven and the angels. He takes the opportunity to talk to the boys and tell them what he has learned about Jesus. He calls it “preaching.” The boys think it wonderful that he can tell so much about the Bible, when they know so little. To-day (Sunday) he went home. I let him have one day of the week to go home and visit his people. He went down to the beach, that being his place of “preaching,” and gathered the boys together, and began to tell them about the commandments, and that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and where they would find it in the Bible. The boys were very anxious to see if he was telling them the truth, so in the midst of his talk they ran home for their Bibles, and found that what he had said was true. Then they told him he had17done well, for it was true. His older brother confirmed what he had said, and they were speechless. I do not send him to school, but teach him at home. He has not been with us a year. When he came, he was weak and sickly. But his healthful way of living has made him a different boy. He has become strong and healthy, and is gaining in flesh. He did not know his alphabet, and could not speak a word of English; but now one would not know he was a Fanti boy, from his speech. Within the last three months he has become a Christian, and prays like one who has been long in the way. It makes one's heart rejoice to see how he grows in the things of God. Last Sunday he told me he was going to work hard for God, and get names of people and pray for them until God had made them Christians. He came home with the names of sixteen persons, some of them men. He seems very glad over his work for Jesus. My heart is in the work, and especially in that in Africa. Pray that God may bless the seed sown.